LUDWIG
Hans Jürgen Syberberg,
D 1972,
140 min
The first part of Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Deutschland Trilogie
"This film is, in a way, a follow-up to the 'living images' that were highly en vogue at the time. They don't depict the life of the Bavarian king but rather the images of his dreams – which he mistook for reality- It is one of [Syberberg's] most exciting movies, incomparable!" (Les Nouvelles Litteraires, 1973)
Syberberg continued the trilogy in 1974 with 'Karl May' and concluded it in 1977 with 'Hitler – ein Film aus Deutschland (1977).
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